Euroclericalism & The Trump NSS
And: China's Taiwan Invasion; Ukraine Grift; Marriage; Isolation; TC in Qatar
On Thursday the Trump Administration released its new National Security Strategy. It has no named author, but Michael Anton’s style is all over it. Here in Europe, the usual suspects are freaking out about its section on the troubled continent. Excerpt from the NSS:
Not only can we not afford to write Europe off—doing so would be self-defeating for what this strategy aims to achieve.
American diplomacy should continue to stand up for genuine democracy, freedom of expression, and unapologetic celebrations of European nations’ individual character and history. America encourages its political allies in Europe to promote this revival of spirit, and the growing influence of patriotic European parties indeed gives cause for great optimism. Our goal should be to help Europe correct its current trajectory.
We will need a strong Europe to help us successfully compete, and to work in concert with us to prevent any adversary from dominating Europe. America is, understandably, sentimentally attached to the European continent— and, of course, to Britain and Ireland. The character of these countries is also strategically important because we count upon creative, capable, confident, democratic allies to establish conditions of stability and security. We want to work with aligned countries that want to restore their former greatness.
Over the long term, it is more than plausible that within a few decades at the latest, certain NATO members will become majority non-European. As such, it is an open question whether they will view their place in the world, or their alliance with the United States, in the same way as those who signed the NATO charter.
From what my own research has been able to find, it’s overstating matters to say that any NATO member will become majority non-European in a few decades. But the basic point still stands. Mass migration, especially from Islamic countries, is making Europe harder to govern. I hardly need to go into details for readers of this newsletter, given how often I write about this. European countries don’t need to be majority-minority to be a strategic challenge to the US.
Look at Keir Starmer’s Britain. The Labour Party is in lockstep with the politics of Islamic pluralities, concentrated in the UK’s major cities. Birmingham, the second-largest UK city, is one-third Muslim today. By 2075, it is likely that all three of the UK’s biggest cities — London, Birmingham, and Manchester — will be majority non-white. That’s not the same as “Muslim,” but certainly a huge number of those non-white residents will be Islamic.
UK politics are already changing according to this reality. Why do you think the authorities suppressed news of the Pakistani Muslim rape gangs? Why do you think Muslim mobs can march through the cities cheering for intifada, but Britons who object to the Palestinian flag in the street face arrest, as one working-class white Briton did in 2023?
It’s important to notice that migrants cluster in major cities. So, on current projections, by 2075, the Île-de-France, the region surrounding Paris, could be 50 to 60 percent non-white. Countries do not lose their capitals and other major cities to foreigners without consequences. Indeed, as Sean Thomas recently wrote in The Telegraph, over the last fifty years, London has gone from being 85 percent white British (that is, whites whose ancestry is British, as distinct from foreign-born whites) to being 37 percent, and falling.
This kind of rapid population shift, he writes, is unprecedented in peacetime. More:
There was not so much a replacement as an invited influx, deliberately willed by the government of the day. London, then, really is unique in peacetime. No one voted for the change we’ve seen, no one consciously willed it, yet it has happened.
It happened because Britain, like the countries of western Europe, has long been governed by a globalist, transatlantic elite that holds their own people and cultures in contempt. As Renaud Camus, who coined the “Great Replacement” concept, has explained, this is not a conspiracy. All over Europe, governments, business leaders, academics, and media people converged, for various reasons, on the idea that multiculturalism is a primary good, and mass migration would make Europe a better place. Plus, says Camus, the Great Replacement couldn’t have happened without the “Great Deculturation” — defined by him as the systematic stripping of national cultural memory from Europeans. This is what the Trump NSS means when it warns of “civilizational erasure” in Europe.
Anybody who entertained these ideas was denounced as a far-right crypto-Nazi. You think I’m kidding? Here is what the former French ambassador to the US had to say about the Trump NSS:
And here is what the former Swedish PM said:
Nick Paton Walsh, CNN’s International Security Editor, howled that the NSS lays bare “Trump’s contempt for Europe.” Er, no. It lays bare Trump’s contempt for a certain idea of Europe — an idea of Europe held by elites, that betrays the interests of Europeans. This idea of Europe is shared by the pan-European ruling class, both in government and in private institutions. It is a secular form of clericalism. Clericalism is the idea that the Church is the clergy, and the people in the pews are just hangers-on. That’s what’s happening here. To these people, “Europe” is the European Council, the European Parliament, The Guardian, Le Monde, the universities (which are heavily dominated by the Left), and the opinions of all right-thinking people.
It’s Euroclericalism, straight up. Americans who get their European news from the US media should know that US journalists are part of this clericalist caste. Remember Christiane Amanpour’s on-camera meltdown when the Brexit results appeared?
Western Europe, including the UK, really does face the prospect of civil war because of the last fifty years of mass migration and the utter failure of multiculturalism. It’s not alarmist to say so. The very last people to see it coming will be the Euroclericalists. Finally, the sensible European parties of the Right have a strong ally in Washington!
I’m sure some of you readers will disagree. I’m eager to hear your counterargument in the comments, which are open to subscribers only. Why not subscribe? We have lively discussion and debates here.
Incidentally, a reader wrote in response to a quote I posted here the other day from a Polish interlocutor in Warsaw last week, who asked me why some Americans of the Right admire Vladimir Putin. I don’t have permission to quote the reader directly, but his basic point was that irrespective of actual religious conditions on the ground in Russia (where relatively few people go to church), Russian elites are openly pro-Christian and morally traditionalist (e.g., against gender ideology) in a way Western elites are not. Look at the Law & Justice Party in Poland, said the reader. It did everything the West wanted regarding Ukraine, and still retained the utter hatred of Brussels. Any nation — say, Hungary — that dissents from the anti-Christian views of the Euroclericalists is subject to systematic hatecraft.
